Bibliography
The reference books this site's coverage and rigor draw on — nothing here is ported from them.
This site’s chapter arc, pattern coverage, and level of rigor draw on a small set of books on REST and API design. They’re reference works, not sources — no text or code from any of them is reproduced here. If a topic in this site is useful to you, these are where to go deeper.
| Title | Author(s) | Publisher | Year | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RESTful Web API Patterns & Practices Cookbook | Mike Amundsen | O’Reilly | 2022 | Hypermedia & REST patterns |
| API Design Patterns | JJ Geewax | Manning | 2021 | Resource & operation design patterns |
| Mastering API Architecture | James Gough, Daniel Bryant, Matthew Auburn | O’Reilly | 2022 | Gateways, testing, evolution, security |
| Learning API Styles | Lukasz Dynowski, Marcin Dulak | O’Reilly | 2025 | Comparing REST/gRPC/GraphQL/etc. styles |
| The Design of Web APIs, 2nd ed. | Arnaud Lauret | Manning | 2024 | API design process & developer experience |
These titles inform this site’s coverage and rigor only — nothing in these chapters or the runnable examples copies text or code from them.